Food
Simply Tasty (with a side of rain)
Thursday, October 04, 2012
The eagerly anticipated wine and food festival, Simply Red, was hosted on the lawns of Jamaica House to much fanfare last Friday. Notwithstanding the sudden, steady drizzle that became unrelenting rains all weekend long, the annual festival, mounted as a fund-raiser by the Heart Foundation of Jamaica, showcased a tantalising range of food purveyors offering fare from gourmet and Jamaican to Asian and Indian. Yogurts, sauces, ice cream, and of course, wines in pleasant varietals were also available. The fund-raising event is but one of the initiatives aimed at raising $10 million for the Foundation's establishment of a cardiac rehabliltation centre. Thursday Food shares snapshots from the culinary cornucopia that was Simply Red. (Photos: Lionel Rookwood)
The Copperwood booth was
a much-trafficked station.
Cardiff Hotel and Spa’s chef
D’Angelo Morrison makes
pork tacos at Copperwood’s
food station.
Caribbean Broilers brand manager Kimberley Mullings (right) makes a point to guest chef Ed Doyle (centre) as Deborah Chen, executive
director of the Heart Foundation of Jamaica, looks on. The occasion was a joint welcome reception by Copperwood Pork and the Heart
Foundation of Jamaica at Usain Bolt’s Tracks and Records last Thursday, ahead of the wine and food festival. (Photos: Lionel Rookwood)
G’s BBQ proprietor Gariel
Ferguson (centre) shared a
moment with Yasmin
Salmon-Russell (left), fund
development and
communications manager at
the Heart Foundation of
Jamaica, and Tanesha
Wallace, brand manager at
Caribbean Broilers, at Usain
Bolt’s Tracks and Records.
Prime Minister Portia Simpson
Miller (left) is introduced to
Boston-based guest chef Kevin
Charles O’Hara by executive
director of the Heart Foundation
of Jamaica Deborah Chen.
Not quite German milkmaids, but pigtailed sporting hostesses (from left) Peta-Gay
McLeod, Shanice Watson and Georgia Graham were all smiles as they poured the
German imported Bitburger beer for patrons.
Tracey Ann Campbell (right) tries out Great House Caterers’ pollo
fusilli alla vodka cream served by Shaneika Dockery, as chef Theo
Smith looks on.
Gariel Ferguson of G’s BBQ
makes a plate of panko crusted
fish fillet with fried bammy and
pickled red onions at the
Scotiabank booth.
Businessman Peter Hendriks (left) and Kayla King, chief executive
officer of Book-Mania, are served glasses of Trivento wine by Jose
Tomas Varas, export manager for the Quinta de Maipo in the Caribbean.
J Wray & Nephew’s Redtree booth — appropriately styled in white
and red — attracted its fair share of drinkers curious to sample the
range of California-made wines.